In our family, the observer is our eldest - he asked me yesterday who switched the photo of my brother & his family on the fridge (they are in missions, and annually update their photo "prayer" card...which looks basically the same year to year, except for an outfit change). He sometimes asks me why I have placed an item in one spot, when he last saw it in another. Drives me nuts. How does one explain that there is not always a concrete reason for everything (or that some "reasons" are simply unimportant...)? There are excellent reasons I chose to adopt a 4 year-old (and this one in particular)...but I can't say it's my favourite age (and I have known that about myself for a LONG time). Just have to keep reminding myself that some of these qualities can (and likely will) become delightful and inspiring as he gets older and puts them to less irritating use!

Joy, you nailed it -- not every "reason" is important, but we're questioned about every one, every time. E. just said to me (literally, just now), "Why you change socks? This morning you have black. Now you have blue. Why?"

"My black socks got a little wet from stepping in a puddle of melted snow," I said.

My name is Ruth. I am fifty years old and have been married to Geoff for twenty-two years. We have three children: a thirteen-year-old boy; an eleven-year-old boy; and a nine-year-old girl. Our second and third children are Ethiopian-born; we brought them home to Canada in mid-2011.

I love to blog about things such as adoption, homsechooling, parenting, and life in general. Being a Christian also factors into what I write about or how I think about things.

Life can be messy and complicated and I have lots of questions about it...but it's my goal to learn to live each day to the fullest. I look forward to learning from you, and hope that you will find something of value here, too.

Welcome, and blessings!

Ruth.

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